The Dickinson press., 1887-07-02
GENERAL. NEWS.

GENERAL. NEWS.
Utah is agitating the question OF
statehood.
The high license law went into rf-
feet in Minnesota Thursday.
The heaviest rain of the season fell
at Fargo yesterday.
The reduction of the national debt
for June is $l5,o0O,0o
y distinct shock of earthquake was
felt ut Concord, n. H.. Thursday.
The commission to locate the Min.
nesota soldiers home did not agree.
1t is rumored that James a. Rich
ards jointly indicted with Sharpe. has
fled the country.
George Pullman, of Pullman car
fame. will he made Il duke by King
Humbert of Italy.
Up to noon yesterday there were
254 applications for liquor license in
Minneapolis ut $1,000 each.
The Genesta has Won the Jubilee
yacht race. Her time over the course
was IL days Is hours and So minutes.
The contract for the construction
of the railroad from Winnipeg to
Pelnbina was let yesterday and work
will begin ut once.
In the June wheat deal i'm New
York Thursday the clique is said to
have made about 10 cents l. bushel ON
100000 bushels.
The eighth annual meeting of the
royal Scottish clans was held in Chi
ca9o. Representatives are present
from the various orders III the United
Stat:s and Canada.
The people in the Fair,ie section
OF G~reenTllle county. :. G.. are arm.
ing and organizing in view of the
formation Of secret labor societies
among the ElegIos.
III the district court at st. Peter.
Mimi. in the ease Of Twist rs. the
Winpla 4 st. Peter railway for dam.
ages to Twists boy. who was hurt bv
a turntable, the jury gave a verdict
for plaintiff for $4,000.
Fire destroyed the business portion
Of the town Of Pullman, WASHINGTON
territory. Loss. seventy.Gve to
eighty thousand dollars. Insurance
about two.thirds.
Rev. DR.. McGlynn intends to be.
come a Knight Of Labor and work
hereafter in the interest of that OF.
ga~niZation, a part of the time at least,
with a view of disseminating his
land theories.
Henry Mickerson, Aleck Woods.
one Williams and a horse thief uu.
known escaped from the Jail at Black
foot, Idaho. Woods and Williams
were sentenced to hang July ODD.
Woods was recaptured and the sher-
iff is after the rest.
Ten Brock, the famous thorough.
bred, died ut the home of the owner,
+. b. Harper, in Woodford county,
kentucky. The cause of death was
appoplexy. He was fifteen years old.
Ills owner refused $4,000 for him a
few days before he died.
The commissioner of the general
land office, with the approval of the
secretary of the interior, has issued to
registers and receivers of United
Stotes land offices all amendatory or.
der governing proceedings to obtain
title to public lands under the desert
land law,
Indian Agent Rockington, at Reg
ina, n. w. T., t%elegraphs the entire
success of the Canadian delegation
sent to Montana to recover 100 horses
stolen from Red Crow. the chief of
the Bloods, by Gros Ventres. The
American authorities gave every as.
siStance possible.
\ big boarding hOnse at 1G4 CLAY.
borne avenue, Chicago. was raided by
burglars and twenty boarders were
c~hloroformed and robbed. The
thieves went into the rooms IL If.
ter another by means of pinchers and
false keys. and after chloroforminr
the sleeping boarders, robbed them
at their leisure.
Sheriff Lynch and posse, of Alpena,
Mich, arrested three desperadoes for
whom a reward of $4,000 is said to
be offered. They are wanted in RAJ.
VIENNA, Ohio. Sheriff Lynch was shot
Ill the leg. but not dangerously
wounded. One of the prisoners tried
to commit suicide soon after being
captured.
Benjamin S. Wheeler, over eighty
years old, rich and peculiar, was al.
rested nearly a year ago for choking
his wife to death at Cleveland, Ohio.
A jury before whom he was tried re.
turned a verdict of not guilty after
being out but twenty minutes. The
old man broke down, and men and
women shed tears.
Judge Aaron Goodrich died at his
home. st. Paul, MINI. June %. Judge
Goodrich would have celebrated his
eightieth birthday on July 9th.
Although l~atterly he had retired from
public life, he will go down i'll history
as II of the foremost and prominent
pioneers of Minnesota.
The large saw mill of the Laird
Norton company, situated on the
levce at Winona, Mimi, was destroyed
by fire. The saw mill burned to the
ground, and the machinery is ALMOST
a total loss. The tiremen worked for
about four hours. The total loss is